Giacomo PASINI

Current position

Since 10/2023
Director of the Economics Department, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Since 5/2019
Full professor of Econometrics, Economics Department, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Since 2008
Research Fellow NETSPAR ((Network for studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement), Tilburg, the Netherlands

Past academic positions

12/2014 – 5/2019 Associate professor, Economics Department, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

3/2011 – 11/2014 Assistant professor, Economics Department, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

3/2009 – 3/2011 SHARE research officer at University of Venice

3/2008 – 2/2009 Assistant professor (NETSPAR post doc researcher), Utrecht School of Economics (NL)

11/2006 – 2/2008 SHARE Research officer and contract lecturer, University of Venice

 
Visiting periods

9/2021 – 6/2022 Visiting Professor, SEPS-CDI, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

1 and 11/2015 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, USA 

9-10/2013 Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen, NL

4-5/ 2012 CFS (Centre for Financial Studies), Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt DE

9/2004 – 6/2005 Economics Department Stanford University, USA

 
 Education

9/2007
PhD in Economics and Organization, Università Ca’ Foscari and SSAV, Venice

Dissertation: “Empirical Studies on Social Interactions”

Advisor: Agar Brugiavini

Defence committee: T. Knudsen (Univ. Odense); R. Alessie (Univ. Groeningen); J. Lemoine (Univ . Nantes)

Final examination passed with honors

 
10/2001
Laurea (MPhil) in Statistics and Economic Science, Università di Padova.

Dissertation: “Information costs and risk attitude in portfolio choices”

Advisors: Guglielmo Weber, Piero Tedeschi

Final grade: 106/110

Further Education – Short courses and Schools

5/2011 Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute 2011, Università La Sapienza, Roma

7/2009 RAND Summer Institute 2009, Santa Monica, CA USA

10/2005 International Workshop on Robust Statistics and R in Treviso, Italy

10/2002 Energy Futures, organized by IPE (International Petroleum Exchange) and LCH (London Clearing House)
 

Awards for the scientific activity

1/2018 “Fundamental Research Funds” by the Italian Ministry of Education (funds granted to less than 25% of Associate professors in Italy)

3/2017 National Scientific Habilitation for Full professorship: Economic policy (13/A1), Political Economy (13/A2), Public Economics (13/A3), Econometrics (13/A5)

7/2015 Ca’ Foscari Economics Department Award for Quality of Research

2/2014 National Scientific Habilitation for Associate professorship: Economic policy (13/A1), Political Economy (13/A2), Econometrics (13/A5)

10/2011 Ca’ Foscari University Research Award – Junior Researchers

4/2009 RAND Summer Institute 2009 participation scholarship

6/2007 Royal Economic Society, Conference Grant

Invited seminars

-          Unisanté Lausanne, 23/10/2025

-         Vrije Universitet Amsterdam, Tnbergen Institute seminar 7/5/2024

-          University of Cagliari, Department seminar 23/11/2023

-          AIES Webinar on Health Economics, 10/5/2023

-          Université Paris-Dauphine (FR), LEDA Department Seminar 3/4/2023

-          University of Konstanz (DE), Department seminar 5/5/2022

-          University of Lüzern, (CH), Department seminar 31/3/2022

-          University of St Gallen (CH), SEPS seminar in Economics 21/10/2021

-          Webinar in Gender and Family Economics, 28/4/2021

-          VIU Summer Institute on Ageing, Venice (IT) 4/6/2019

-          Household Finance meeting Seminar, University of St Gallen (CH) 16/05/2019

-          University of Padova (IT), project workshop 18/12/2017

-          Lund University, (SE), 6/12/2017

-          Danish Centre of Applied Social Science, Copenaghen (DK) 5/12/2017

-          California State University at LA, Los Angeles, CA USA 31/10/2017

-          RAND Corporaton, Santa Monica, CA USA 30/10/2017

-          University of Lousanne (CH), FORS Lunch Seminar 08/03/2016

-          University of Bologna, department seminar (IT) 03/02/2015

-          Universidad Pompeu Fabra (ES), CRES seminar 27/11/2014

-          University of Groningen (NL) department seminar 16/10/2013

-          Munich Center for the Economics of Ageing and Ludwig Maximilian Universitat, Munich (DE), joint empirical economics seminars 28/05/2013

-          Sassari University (IT), Economics department seminar 2/05/2013

-          Erasmus University /Tinbergen Institute seminar, Rotterdam (NL) 11/03/2013

-          CFS seminar, Frankfurt (DE), 23/04/2012

-          Economics department seminar, University of Siena (IT), 11/04/2012

-          CPB seminar, Den Haag (NL), 03/4/2012

-          IRDES seminar, Paris (FR) 5/07/2011

-          University of Bologna, department seminar (IT) 07/10/2010

-          Utrecht School of Economics, department seminar (NL), 10/03/2008

-          Scuola Superiore S.Anna LEM seminar, Pisa (IT) 15/01/2008

-          Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan department seminar (IT) 13/02/2007

-          University of Padova, department seminar (IT) 28/11/2006

Conference Presentations

-          2025: Social care policy and data workshop, 9-10/6/2025 King's College London (UK); VIU Summer School on Ethics and Health Care, Venezia 16-19/6/2025; ASHEcon Conference, Nashville (US) 22-25/6/2025; Workshop on Health, Healthcare and Wellbeing of the Elderly and Migrants, 15-16/9/2025 Padova (IT); Lausanne XII Conference by WEF and OECD, 24-25/10/2025

-          2024: Age-it Conference, Venezia 14/4/2024; Workshop on Promoting Long Term Care, OECD Paris (FR) 12-13/6/2024; ASSET Conference 31/10-1/11 2024, Venezia; SHARE Gateway User Conference, Berlin (DE) 6-8/11/2024; Workshop on Applied Econometrics, 12-13/12/2024 London City University (UK)

-          2023: American-European Health Economics Study Group, 6-7/7/2023; AIEL Conference, Genova (IT) 8-9/9/2023; EALE Conference, Prague (CZ) 21-23/9/2023

-          2022: EALE Conference, Padova (IT) 8-10/9/2022

-          2019: OECD-USC Workshop on Dementia Care: Families, Institutions, and Policies, Paris (FR) 11/6/2019;

-          2018: Conference on Cross-Country Analysis of Retirement, Health, and Well-Being, USC, Los Angeles (USA), 29-30/10/2018; AISSEC Conference, Turin (IT) 4-5/10/2018; SLLS Conference, Milano (IT), 9-11/7/2018; (eng)aging conference, Prague (CZ) 1-2/3/2018 – invited speaker

-          2017: EALE Conference, St Gallen (CH) 20-22/09/2017;  ICEEE Conference, Messina (IT) 25-27/01/2017

-          2016: Workshop on “Gender and Health Impacts of Policies Extending Working life in Western Countries,” Modena 19/3/2016 – invited speaker; Netspar Pension Workshop, Amsterdam 26-28/1/2016

-          2015: Workshop on Consequences of the Economic Crisis in Health, Madrid (ES), 17-18/9/2015;

-          2014: ASSET conference, Aix-en-Provence (FR), 7/11/2014; Netspar Pension Workshop, Amsterdam 29-31/1/2014;

-          2013: SHARE Users Conference, Liege (BE) 28-29/11/2013; NETSPAR Pension Workshop, Amsterdam (NL) 23-26/01/2013; ICEEE Conference, Genova (IT) 16-18/01/2013

-          2012: AIES annual conference, Roma (IT) 15-16/11/2012; ASSET Conference Limassol (CY), 1-3/11/2012;  Royal Economic Society Conference, Cambridge (UK)   27/03/2012

-          2011: ASSET Conference Evora (PT)  27-29/10/2011; Netspar theme conference, Utrecht 7/10/2011 – invited speaker;  AIES annual conference, Napoli 29/09/2011 – invited speaker; SHARE Users conference, Tallinn (EST) 1-3/09/2011; New Directions in Welfare Conference, OECD, Paris (FR) 6-8/7/2011; Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Groningen (NL) 14/04/2011;  NETSPAR Pension Workshop, Amsterdam (NL) 26-28/01/2011

-          2010 and before: Long Term Care 2010 Conference, London School of Economics (UK), 09/09/2010; HRS, ELSA and SHARE workshop, RAND Santa Monica, CA  (USA)17/07/2010; EEA-ESEM, Barcelona (ES) 23-31/08/2009; ESPE Conference, UCL London (UK), 19-21/06/2008; NETSPAR Pension Workshop, Utrecht (NL) 29-31/01/2008; FEEM Coalition Theory Network workshop, Venice (IT)  24-25/01/2008;  ASSET Conference Padova (IT) 01-03/11/2007;  EEA-ESEM, Budapest (HU) 27-31/08/2007; Workshop on the economics of Ageing, CERP Turin (IT) 17-19/05/2007;  Quantitative Economic Doctorate jamboree, Venice (IT) 04/05/2007;  ASSET Conference Padova (IT) 01-03/11/2007;   “Reciprocity: theory and Facts”, Verbania (IT), 22-24/02/2007; ICEEE Conference, Rimini (IT) 25-26/01/2007;  EEA-ESEM, Vienna (AT) 24-28/08/2006; Quantitative Economic Doctorate jamboree, Vienna (AT) 12-14/05/2006

Administrative and Academic Service

National appointments
2021-2023 Member of the Commission granting the National Scientific Habilitation for associate and full professors in Econometrics (ASN)
 
 
University appointments
2023-2026 Director of Economics Department

2022-2025 Coordinator Research Institute for Social Innovation

2017-2020 Rector’s delegate for international cooperation and development

2016-2021 Economics PhD Program Director

2014-2015 Member of the University Quality Assessment Group
 
 
Editorial activity
2023 – Associate editor of Research in Economics

2020 – Associate editor of Health Economics

2020 - Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pensions, Economics and Finance
 
 
Referee for
Economic Journal, Aging & Society, Labour, Research in Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Finance, International Journal of Health Care Economics & Finance, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of Socioeconomics, European Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Review of Economics of the Household, European Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Pension, Economics and Finance, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, PLOS ONE, Social Science and Medicine, Baltic Economic Journal, Health Economics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Financial Research, Labor Economics, Management Science
 
 
Member of
Econometric Society, Royal Economic Society, European Economic Association, American Economic Association, Italian Association of Health Economics (AIES)
 
 
Scientific Committee
Italian SHARE Users conference 2011, BOMOPAV workshop series (yearly conference, 2012-2017), 2nd CINTIA conference, VIU Summer School on Ageing (since 2014), Venice-Groningen PhD Workshop (2015 and 2016), American-European Health Study Group Workshop 2020 and 2022, Washington Gateway LTC Policy conference 2023, 2024 Empirical Health Economics Workshop in Pisa (IT)
 
 
Organizer
Seminars series at the Economic Department, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2013-2015); Gateway-CAPRA Long Term Care Seminar Series (2023-)

Contract research and non-academic positions

10-12/2017; 10-12/2018
Treviso Association of Accountants. Development of a synthetic Companies Performance Index
1/2017-6/2017
Italian National Agriculture confederation. Analysis of a questionnaire about policies for the elderly in Padova province
5/2014-12/2014
Contract Reseach “Impatto sul territorio del Parco Scientifico Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia” for Venice Province Chamber of Commerce and Ca’ Foscari Foundation
12/2011
Research Department Generali group, Trieste

Teacher at a three days course on econometrics of survey data
10/2010
Scuola di Studi Superiori Sant’Anna, Pisa

Teacher at master in “Insurance marketing”
6/2010 – 9/2010
Contract research “Family care” for IRSA, Insurance Research and Development Institute
3/2009  - 12/2009
Contract research “Verso un nuovo sistema di architettura sociale per la famiglia” for ANIA, Italian Association of Insurance companies
8/2009
Research Department Generali group, Trieste

Contract research on Aging, risk attitude and the financial crisis
6/2007 and 7/2010
Research Department Generali group, Trieste

Teacher at a three days course on introductory econometrics
6/2006  – 9/2006
IUAV University, Venice sponsored by RFI, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Project on Lombardy’s railway infrastructure development
3/2009 – 3/2012;

3/2006 – 3/2008
Ne-t by Telerete Nordest s.r.l., Padova

Board’s member and Vice-president
12/2001 – 9/2003
Eni SpA, Corporate Financial Department, Milan

Full-time job as Commodity Market Risk Controller
7-9/2000
Internship at Research Department Generali group, Trieste

Teaching activities in other universities

Microeconometrics Master level 2013, University of Groningen

(Mental) Health and Labor Economics, PhD level 2021, University of St Gallen
 

Phd supervisions

Liudmila Antonova first placement Center for Analytics, Modelling and Innovations, Euromonitor International, Vilnius (LT)

Iaroslav Youssim first placement Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem (IL)

Chiara Dal Bianco First placement post-doc University of Padua, (IT)

Anastasia Girshina First placement Central bank of Luxemburg (LU)

Mesfin Genie First placement post-doc Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen (UK)

Aregawi Gebremariam First placement researcher at Addis Ababa University, (ET)

Matteo Aggio First placement Lear - Economic Consultancy, Rome (IT)

Francesco Caloia Difesa settembre 2020 First palcement Dutch Central Bank, NL

Rinaldo Naci First placement post-doc Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, (IT)

Ludovica Spinola First placement post-doc Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, (IT)

Petru Crudu First placement post-doc University of Innsbruck, (AT)

Madi Mangan First placement Vrije Universitet Amsterdam, (NL)

Heber Davila Expected defence spring 2028

Chiara Campana Expected defence spring 2029

PhD Committees

Thanee Chaiwat, Paolo Nicola Barbieri (University of Bologna), Barbara Cavasso, Francesco Campo (University of Padova), Gulnara Huseynli, Licia Ferranna, Giovanna Notarnicola, Elena Bassoli, Isaac Mensah, Giulia Romani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Jerry Wang and Gianmaria Niccodemo (University of Groningen)